Support for drying medicine-bottles.



N0..850,381. PATENTED APR. 16, 1907.

G. LOHMANN.

SUPPORT FOR DRYING MEDICINE BOTTLES.

' APPLICATION FILED JAN.15. 1900.

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' No..850,381. PATENTED APR. 16,1907.

C(LOHMANN.

SUPPORT FO'R DRYING MEDICINE BOTTLES. v APPLICATION FILED mums, 1906'.

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CARL LOHMANN, or eELsENKrncnEN, GERMANY.

SUPPORT FOR DRYING MEDICINE-BOTTLES. i

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented April 16, 1907.

Application filed January 15,1906. Serial No. 296,102.

To all 1071/0171 it 77b6by concern:

Be it known that I, CARL LOHMANN, proprietor of a drug-store, a SHbJGGl] of the German Emperor, and a resident of 4 Neumarkt,

Gelsenkirchen, Germany, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in a Support' for Drying Medicine-Bottles, of which the following is a specification.

I am well aware of the fact that while drying washed bottles the same are put with their necks over thorns provided on a frame. This process has been suflicient for beer, wine, mineral bottles, or the like, but has never been used for drying medicine-bottles. Naturally medicine-bottles must I meet quite other sanitary demands, and they should always be kept ready for use, freshly cleaned, and completely dry. Hygienic causes make it quite necessary to dry medicine-bottles quickly. The wet bottles favor the adhesion of dust mixed with bacteria of all sorts. In consequence thereof the medicine may become dirty and the danger of infection is greatly enlarged. It is therefore necessary to dry all bottles serving for a hygienic purpose on a device which allows a quick drying of the bottles by means of a good airing and which, moreover, is capable of resisting the corrosive action of acids and other chemicals. The device should also be of such a form that it maybe easily and quickly cleaned.

The object of my invention meets these demands. Its essential features consist of several elastic tongues respectively arranged and resting against the inside or outside of the neck of the bottle and supporting the same. Aluminium bronze is a very suitable material for these supports, and it may be more convenient to arrange several supports on one common frame, plate, or the like.

In theaccompanying drawings, in which several different constructions of this support are illustrated, like letters of reference correspond to like parts throughout the dif ferent views.

Figure 1 shows a cross-section on lines II II of Fig. 2 through a frame with a support. Fig. 2 is a front view of the frame, partly in section, with several supports, one support being detached from the supporting-pin.

Fig. 3 shows the plan View of a stamped support not bent, with three tongues and a baseplate. Fig. 4 shows a front viewof this support with upward-bent tongues. Fig. 5 is a horizontal cross-section on lines II of Fig. 4. Fig. 6 shows the same view as Fig. 3, but with four tongues. Fig. 7 shows a front view of a support with four tongues. Fig. 8 is a horizontal cross-section on lines III III of Fig. 7. Fig. 9 shows a cross-section through a support in which the tongues are bent to rest against the outside of the neck of the bottle. In Figs. 1 and 2, a is a frame-plate, provided with longitudinal grooves b for carrying away the water. 0 are pins carrying the elastic supports and riveted to the platea or otherwise firmly connected with the same. The top of these pins is provided with a screw-thread (Z. The support itself consists 'of several metal tongues c, all stamp ed of one piece. It is fastened in any convenient manner to a head-piece f, having an interiorlythreaded opening to receive the pin 0.

In the constructions illustrated in Figs. 39 the pins 0 are not necessary. Simultaneously with the tongues m a base-plate g is stamped out which is provided with holes and riveted to the frame-plate n. The tongues are bent, as shown in Figs. 4, 7 The neck of the bottles can now be fixed over the tongues m, which will press aga nst the inside ofthe neck, support the bottle, allow agood airing, and a flowing down of the water.

Fig. 9 shows a construction in which the tongues m are bent in such a way that they press against the outside of the neck of the bottle. afford a support for the neck of the bottle.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by a United States Letters Patent, is

1. In a support for drying bottles, the combination of elastic metal tongues, said tongues being bent over and downward, forming a springy head adapted to receive the neck of a bottle, a base-plate, and means to attach said elastic tongues to said baseplate, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

2. A support for drying bottles comprising elastic metal tongues and a base-plate The tongues are bent out at m to stamped out of one sheet of metal, said signed my name, this 19th day of December, tongues being bent to a suitable form for re- 1905, in the presence of two subscribing Witceiving the neck of a bottle in an inverted nesses. position, and abase-board to which said base- 5 I 5 plate is fastened, substantially as and for the Wintesses :v

purpose set forth. l ERNEST BORDRE, In testimony whereof I have hereunto PETER LIEBER.

CARL LOHMANN. 

